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Unfortunately I can't actually explain what happened without in turn spoiling this film for you, so if anyone hasn't see David Cronenberg's 'Spider' and is intending to, then you can't read this I'm afraid, although you should be warned that if you do intend to see it DO NOT read the back of the DVD box whatever you do!!! Anyway, I'm a bit of a Cronenberg fan, and I'd heard really good things about this, so I strait out bought it off play without seeing it first, something I rarely do. Anyway, at work, I'm perusing the back of the box, as you do, and I read the little box where it describes the nature of the film, you know, Violence: Heavy, Nudity: Mild, that kind of thing. Under the 'Other' box it had 'Theme of patricide'… …5 minutes in I realise the film is all about a guy who's dad has died, and I'm thinking to myself "Hmmmm, patricide eh? I sure hope the twist isn't that the guy killed his own dad after all". Sure enough, it was. I mean WTF!?!?!?!? You can't put full on end spoilers on the back of the box, in the little box that you're supposed to read to see if it's suitable for your kids or whatnot! SO ANNOYING!!! |
The worst spoiler ever!!!
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Salaman 24,162 posts
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Registered 17 years agoHaaaaahahaa. Classic.
But how else will you be able to tell if you kids can watch it.
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mal 29,326 posts
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Registered 20 years agoReminds me of the DVD release of the second version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the 70s one with Kiefer's da). The bloomin DVD menu is a video snippet of Sutherland having been turned into a pod creature - basically the ending of the film, which they show you before the film starts. Aargh!
Edited by mal at 16:23:30 27-09-2005 -
mal wrote:
Reminds me of the DVD release of the second version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the 70s one with Kiefer's da). The bloomin DVD menu is a video snippet of Sutherland having been turned into a pod creature - basically the ending of the film, which they show you before the film starts. Aargh!
Edited by mal at 16:23:30 27-09-2005
Yeah, I noticed exactly that on my copy. Luckily I'd seen it several times, but I do remember thinking that was a bit crap. -
Not strictly a spoiler, but there's a recent horror film called Creep, or something like that, about a woman in London who goes clubbing, comes out at midnight and gets on a tube, and is then stalked by some weird killer.
Anyone familiar with London will spot the glaring plothole there, pointed out on the back of the box.
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MrWorf 64,193 posts
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Registered 20 years agoMust not read spoiler...
nrrrggg.....
/reads
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mr-rick 1,044 posts
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Registered 19 years agoGremmi wrote:
Not strictly a spoiler, but there's a recent horror film called Creep, or something like that, about a woman in London who goes clubbing, comes out at midnight and gets on a tube, and is then stalked by some weird killer.
Anyone familiar with London will spot the glaring plothole there, pointed out on the back of the box.
Edited by Gremmi at 16:26:15 27-09-2005
Leaving the club at midnight? Most clubs go on till at least 2am -
Freek 7,682 posts
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Registered 18 years agoAnd sicne when does "patricide" need to be classified anyway? Isn't that covered by the "violence" part of the warning?
OH but it's not just any old violonce, no no, it's violonce against your parent, that soooooooo totaly entirely different!!! 0_o -
Freek wrote:
And sicne when does "patricide" need to be classified anyway? Isn't that covered by the "violence" part of the warning?
OH but it's not just any old violonce, no no, it's violonce against your parent, that soooooooo totaly entirely different!!! 0_o
Exactly. It's a worrying sympton of the nanny nation we are starting to live in.
"Oh no, a warning about murder is not enough. You might get someone who is fine with murder, but killed their dad, and so isn't so great with patricide, and so might sue us..."
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pjmaybe 70,666 posts
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Registered 20 years agoFreek wrote:
And sicne when does "patricide" need to be classified anyway? Isn't that covered by the "violence" part of the warning?
OH but it's not just any old violonce, no no, it's violonce against your parent, that soooooooo totaly entirely different!!! 0_o
Quite surprised meself but you'd be very surprised at how much ass covering the yanks now need to do, to the point where yes, they would need to make it plain that it was patricide in the film just so someone doesn't sue them claiming the film brought up all the harrowing memories of them offing their own father 30 years ago....
Crazy world.
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sam_spade 15,745 posts
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Registered 20 years agoGremmi wrote:
Not strictly a spoiler, but there's a recent horror film called Creep, or something like that, about a woman in London who goes clubbing, comes out at midnight and gets on a tube, and is then stalked by some weird killer.
Anyone familiar with London will spot the glaring plothole there, pointed out on the back of the box.
They used the warning/advice text in the trailers didn't they. Thought that was good. -
drumbaby 2,688 posts
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Registered 17 years agoI particularly like the DVD cover of the original Planet of the Apes.
Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowall star in this legendary science fiction masterpiece. Astronaut Taylor (Heston) crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist (McDowall). Winner of an Honorary Academy Award for Outstanding Make-up Achievement, Planet Of The Apes is grand entertainment from its visually arresting beginning to the chilling last moment.
Fuck me, if there's not the Statue of Liberty poking out of the sand...Why, they were on Earth all along! Blump!! -
MetalDog 24,076 posts
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Registered 20 years agoI picked up a stack of cheapie horror movies for a tenner a while back. One of them had a lot of blurb on the back of the box, which upon reading, turned out to be a point-by-point synopsis of the entire film.
I watched it* and can't remember a single thing about it, so I figure it's there to remind people what they watched.
I'm not even sure what it was called...
*watched as in, got bored quickly and started playing a game while it was on, kind of sort of taking it in inbetween battles. -
MetalDog wrote:
I picked up a stack of cheapie horror movies for a tenner a while back. One of them had a lot of blurb on the back of the box, which upon reading, turned out to be a point-by-point synopsis of the entire film.
I watched it* and can't remember a single thing about it, so I figure it's there to remind people what they watched.
I'm not even sure what it was called...
*watched as in, got bored quickly and started playing a game while it was on, kind of sort of taking it in inbetween battles.
IT?
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Universal_Hamster 4,948 posts
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Registered 17 years agoIm eagerly awaiting the new special edition of "The Usual Suspects" The cover has a big arrow pointing to Kevin Spacey and says, "It were him all along!"
Violence: Moderate
Swearing: Frequent, Harsh
Sex/Nudity: Some moderate references.
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smoothpete 37,743 posts
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Registered 17 years agoDVD menus piss me off, where they show loads of cut up footage from the film, before you've had the chance to watch it yet. What is the point exactly? My favourites though are the descriptions on the back of pirate DVDs, where they haven't bothered to get the official film description so just write down a direct synopsis of the plot, including what happens at the end -
MetalDog 24,076 posts
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Registered 20 years agokalel wrote:
IT?
Heh, no. Although that /was/ rubbish - lord, the acting! Aie!
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MetalDog wrote:
kalel wrote:
IT?
Heh, no. Although that /was/ rubbish - lord, the acting! Aie!
Book was rocking, though.
Ahh but it did have Tim Curry in it, which puts it way ahead of the game. -
DaisyD 11,816 posts
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Registered 16 years agoHmmmmmmm . . . . .
/Checks rear of DVD
My copy of Spider says matricide under 'other'. Never noticed that before. Then again, I'm not one to read the back of DVDs or, if I do, I rarely read to the end. -
MetalDog 24,076 posts
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Registered 20 years agoNot even Tim Curry could save it, although he was alright. The others though... nng. My fifteen year old brother could act better with a quart of Jolt inside him. -
Universal_Hamster 4,948 posts
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Registered 17 years agoWas Tim curry not in the book? Who played him then? -
MetalDog 24,076 posts
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Registered 20 years agoToast wrote:
No, John Craven played Pennywise in the book.
Hee.
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Spanky 15,037 posts
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Bates 348 posts
Registered 17 years agoThanks for spoiling the film! -
templar-wizard 3,153 posts
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Registered 19 years ago'Brad Pitt is a figment on Ed Nortons imagination...'
can you guess which movie that opening line on the dvd box movie discription is from?
surely the worst one.
although, planet of the apes cover that drumbaby stated is the best image spoiler. -
The one I like best is the DVD of Soylent Green.
Guess which plot point they give away on the back of the box
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